Submission to the Inquiry into COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022 and the Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Discrimination) Bill 2023
Submission to the Inquiry into COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022 and the Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting COVID-19 Vaccine Discrimination) Bill 2023
NOTICE: The following submission is part of the parliamentary record in the Commonwealth of Australia. I am a philosopher/ethicist, previously published on the question of vaccine mandates and associated discrimination in peer reviewed literature. I submit that discrimination on the basis of Covid-19 vaccination status ought to be prohibited on the following grounds:
Thank you! I agree with you 100%. You argue the most important points, and I have argued the same for decades. If we cannot refuse medical intervention of any kind, then we have no liberty at all.
The Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee has completed the inquiry. The report does not acknowledge or respond to my argument that mandates for vaccines that kill a percentage of people violate the right to life.
A workplace that mandates that a percentage of employees must die from vaccination for the benefit of other employees is not a safe workplace. The community does not have the right to kill innocent people to achieve a higher standard of health, even if a higher standard is achievable by killing innocent people.
Is there an email we can send a media request to? We'd like to interview you on normative ethics, and a general ontological frolic to introduce our viewers to practical applications of philosophy.
Basically we want them to start asking whether they would 'kill the fat man'.
COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022 regrettably excludes healthcare workers and government employees, but it is a step in the right direction. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=s1358
Thank you! I agree with you 100%. You argue the most important points, and I have argued the same for decades. If we cannot refuse medical intervention of any kind, then we have no liberty at all.
The Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee has completed the inquiry. The report does not acknowledge or respond to my argument that mandates for vaccines that kill a percentage of people violate the right to life.
A workplace that mandates that a percentage of employees must die from vaccination for the benefit of other employees is not a safe workplace. The community does not have the right to kill innocent people to achieve a higher standard of health, even if a higher standard is achievable by killing innocent people.
The Bills are yet to be voted on by the Senate.
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/committees/reportsen/RB000100/toc_pdf/COVID-19VaccinationStatus(PreventionofDiscrimination)Bill2022andtheFairWorkAmendment(ProhibitingCOVID-19VaccineDiscrimination)Bill2023.pdf
Hey Michael,
Is there an email we can send a media request to? We'd like to interview you on normative ethics, and a general ontological frolic to introduce our viewers to practical applications of philosophy.
Basically we want them to start asking whether they would 'kill the fat man'.
Matt
support@discernable.io
Please also submit a copy of your academic paper as a PDF to your submission. Otherwise, they will not read it.